- Law 31, limit typefaces to two per document.…You may have hundreds of typefaces on your computer…and there are hundreds of thousands more…typefaces out in the world that are available…for purchase and some of them are even free to download.…With all of these typefaces at your fingertips,…it's really easy to over do it…and junk up your documents with too…many typefaces in one document.…

Using too many typefaces results in…a document that's unprofessional and messy.…Unless you're a trained, experienced graphic designer,…it's best to stick with two typefaces as a maximum…in any document that you create.…Here's an example of a flyer…that uses 10 different typefaces.…All of the text looks so different…from all of the other text,…that this doesn't even look like a cohesive document.…Instead, it looks like a bunch of unrelated…text blocks that are all screaming for our attention.…

And the result is a noisy,…unorganized, and unprofessional mess.…Now here's the same basic flyer with…the same information, same layout,…but here we've chosen two typefaces…

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11/3/2014

Typography, done right, can enrich any message, making it beautiful and easy to understand. In this course, Jill Butler distills her many years of teaching and design consulting into 33 laws of typography. These laws are the details that designers can overlook or, in some cases, never learned, but that make for stronger compositions. Here these rules are broken down into five categories: documents, large bodies of text, small blocks of text, punctuation, and typefaces. Dive into any section to start learning how to put these principles into action in your own designs.